WEAVERS LAB
Tissue resilience in health and disease
Our team is based within a thriving community of cell and developmental biology, and tissue repair groups in the Faculty of Life Sciences in the vibrant city of Bristol.
The Faculty boasts world-class research facilities with state-of-the-art equipment in the Wolfson Bioimaging, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and Flow Cytometry facilites.
Helen Weavers
Principal Investigator
Sir Henry Dale Fellow
jointly funded by The Wellcome Trust and The Royal Society
See my University of Bristol Research Profile:
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/helen-m-a-weavers
Previously Wellcome Trust PhD Student (University of Cambridge) and MRC-funded Research Associate (University of Bristol).
Terrence Trinca
MRC Post-doctoral
researcher
with Profs Paul Martin & Sussan Nourshargh
Terrence started with us in 2022 after a PhD with flies in Cardiff in the lab of Dr Joaquin De Navascues. Terrence is interested in how immune cells reach sites of injury. Terrence even has his own 3D printer!
Tua Karling
PhD student
former MRes
postgraduate student
Tua recently completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester, where she was introduced to the wonders of Drosophila! Tua is now pursuing her love of research as a PhD student with us studying immune cell migration in complex 3D environments.
Jake Turley
Postgraduate student on the MRC GW4 DTP
co-supervised by Prof Tannie Liverpool, Prof Paul Martin & Dr Isaac Chenchiah
After completing his Mathematics degree at the University of Bristol, Jake is now moving into the world of biology with us in this cross-institutional and multi-disciplinary PhD project.
Lulwah Alshamali
PhD student
with Prof Richard Coward &
Prof Gavin Welsh
Lulwah has just joined us to start her PhD studies! Lulwah is interested in understanding more about renal physiology and disease, combining fly and mammalian models.
MSc & Summer students
If you're interested in a summer lab project with
us, get in touch!
.
PhD projects available!
Fully funded 3.5 year
PhD studentship
for October 2024 start
Interested in state-of-the-art live imaging and genetic approaches in Drosophila and want to learn techniques in human genetic epidemiology?
Please see FindaPhD entry here for further information about the project and how to apply.
Giuliana Clemente
Wellcome Trust-funded
Post-doctoral
researcher
Giuliana started with us in 2018 after a CRUK-funded PhD in Dundee with Prof Arno Muller and a short post-doc with Dr Tom Millard at the University of Manchester.
Giuliana is also an active pre-lighter!
Jack Holcombe
Sir Jules Thorn
PhD student
Postgraduate student on the MRC GW4 DTP
Jack has moved into the world of fruitflies after a Masters year in St Andrews studying regeneration in Amphioxus! Jack is now a PhD student funded by the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust and a member of the GW4 MRC-funded Doctoral Training Programme.
Harry Young
PhD student on the
Wellcome Trust
Dynamic Molecular Cell Biology PhD Programme
Harry spent 3 months rotating in our lab last year where he discovered the wonderful world of Drosophila research. Harry is now back in the lab as a PhD student where he is integrating Drosophila live-imaging and genetics with human genetic epidemiology to explore how tissues protect themselves from oxidative stress.
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Beth Sawyer
NC3Rs PhD student
with Prof David Sheppard,
Prof Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
& Dr Jamie Duckers
Beth has just joined us to start her PhD studies! Beth is interested in understanding the links between tissue damage, inflammation and infection in conditions such as COPD and cystic fibrosis.
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Katie Barnard
MRes student
within the School of Biochemistry
Katie has just joined us to start her MRes studies! Katie is interested in the stress response pathways activated after tissue damage and how they help promote rapid healing.
Alumnae
Our previous
lab members
Emma Case (MSci student in Biochemistry)
Kayleigh Cruickshank (MSci in Biomedical Sciences)
Amy Harris (Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship)
Katie Burbridge (UoB Biochemistry BSc student)
Lauren Craker (Chemistry MSc student; in collaboration with Prof Dek Woolfson)
We are recruiting!
Post-doctoral researcher
&
PhD students